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Comment:
Calvin playfully refers to this illustrated, easy-to-understand introduction to arcaheoastronomy as "a dozen ways of predicting eclipses --
those paleolithic strategies for winning fame and fortune by
convincing people that you're (ahem) on speaking terms with
whoever runs the heavens." Sites covered include Stonehenge,
Avebury, and several Anasazi caves.

Comment:
This book is considered to be the introductory book for students of architecture, and at many schools is the freshman text. It covers basic
topics of architecture, using both exsisting structures and planned ones. The principles examined are applied
to both acient works and modern structures. It offers many good drawings of various buildings. The text is light and easy, but their relation to the
images fully develop the ideas. I recommend this book merely as a reference. PMN

Comment:
A lively scholarly catalogue of the numerous archaeological, archaeoastronomical, metrological, and metaphysical theories about the design of
Stonehenge that have arisen over the years, with many valuable illustrations demonstrating the site's
changing status as a focus for sacred site tourism during recent centuries. CY

Cook, Theodore AndreaThe Curves of Life, Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science and to Art; With Special
Reference to the Manuscripts of Leonardo Da VinciConstable, 1914; reprinted by Dover, 1979
illustrated
LC 78-14678
ISBN 0-486-23701-X

Comment:
Typical of pattern analysis prior to Jay Hambidge; all the geometric designs are perceived as products of static symmetry and those that do not
fit into that mold are seen as freehand work. Still, this is a heavily illustrated compendium of European
and Middle Eastern architectural ornament and a good companion to Amor Fenn's contemporaneous book on architecture. CY

Comment:
A detailed anthropological study examining how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and
understand numbers. Looks at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications. Analyzes how numbers
operate within different contexts, and considers the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time,
money, music, games, and architecture. MZ